2025 Institute Research Conference

The Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute’s annual research conference showcases the range of frontier-style research that the Institute engages with and supports. Presenters, discussants, and attendees will engage in a broad scholarly exchange of ideas around presented papers.

The keynote speaker will be David Card, the Class of 1950 Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the 2021 winner of the Nobel prize in economics. Card pioneered the use of natural experiments to identify and measure causal effects. Much of his research has focused on the labor market effects of education, immigration, and minimum wages. Card has described his research as seeking to “understand why some people succeed and others fail, and how their success or failure is related to the environment, institutions and the people themselves.” Card was also the 1995 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal, the top honor for economists under 40. He served as president of the American Economic Association in 2021.

An Early Career Researchers’ Workshop will follow on November 14. That event, which is by invitation, focuses on developing research of scholars who have completed their Ph.D. in the last eight years (from 2017 to 2024).

The conference organizer is Amanda Michaud, and this year’s program committee members are Taha Choukhmane, Stephie Fried, Daniel Hartley, Amanda Michaud, Serdar Ozkan, Kosali Simon, and Abigail Wozniak.

The program and photos from last year’s conference can be found here.

This registration is for the livestream only. For inquiries about in-person registration, please email MplsInstitute@mpls.frb.org.

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Location

This is a hybrid event.